As time goes by, it is only natural that we find certain everyday activities, such as climbing the stairs, becoming increasingly difficult. For someone with limited mobility due to injury, disability or chronic diseases such as arthritis and angina installing a stair lift is a low-cost common sense solution.
Entertaining The Elderly On Grandparents Day
Not all elderly people have family to celebrate Grandparents Day with them. In fact, many of our most celebrated older citizens live lonely lives in retirement or nursing homes. One way to spend the holiday is to visit a nursing home and provide some companionship for elderly members of our society.
Massage Therapy For The Elderly
You’ve probably heard about how effective massage therapy for elderlies is by now, but you probably don’t know why it is considered so beneficial. Well, although massage therapy has been practiced for a long time, the general public has only recently started to open their minds and hearts to this technique in recent years. It is now known, and proven, that touch therapy and massage helps reduce stress in elderlies – someone who is given the massage and touch therapy sleeps de…
Adjusting To An Aging Mind
As brains age, people are likely to think as quickly or remember things as well as they used to. You can follow a few simple tips to help remember things and avoid scams.
Finding Nonmedical Home Care
There are a number of ways to get nonmedical supportive services inside a home. But regardless of what level of service you are looking for, odds are you will find yourself facing one choice: Should you find and hire an independent contractor or someone who works for an agency?
Medicare Drug Benefit Gaining Millions Of Enrollees
According to a recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Medicare’s new prescription drug benefit now covers 25 million Americans.
Aging Parents and Role Reversal
Unfortunately, you are not able to turn back time. Your children are no longer the only parenting role you have. It is now including the care and decision making for your own parents. Role Reversal for aging parents is difficult on all concerned. It isn’t anything you prepared for or expected would happen to you. If you need a dose of growing up, elder care will make it happen whether you’re ready or not!
Fraud Prevention Tips For The Elderly
Fraud artists target the elderly more often than you might think.
Medication and Older Adults
Of all the problems older adults face in taking medication, drug interactions are probably the most dangerous. There is also evidence that older adults tend to be more sensitive to drugs than younger adults are, due to their generally slower metabolisms and organ functions.
Are you or your elderly parents moving to an Apartment from a house? Here’s Help
So you’re moving to an apartment, what do you do with all your favorite things you can’t live without? Are your parents elderly and you’re downsizing them? Sure you can’t take everything, but you probably can manage your/their most valued pieces. Here’s some valueable tips. Not moving? Lots of FREE interior decorating and Interior design articles on my site. Gardening and Landscaping too!
Hearing Impaired? Hearing Aids? Advice for “Deafies” and those who put up with us
When, at 19 years-of-age, I bought one hearing aid, it was as if someone turned the sound up. I felt even more invincible. By the time I was 30, I knew I needed aids in both ears. It was not for 25 more years that I would learn that hearing aids alone were not enough.
Mobility Electric Scooters – Freedom for the Elderly
Being confined to a bed or in a chair may not be exactly what you had envisioned during your last years. Find freedom and independence again with electric mobility scooters.